Tag: energy
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ARPA-E Fusion Programs Annual Meeting
I attended the ARPA-E Fusion Programs Annual Meeting at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston, MA, June 14-15, 2023. The hotel is a landmark situated in the very heart of Boston. Here is a detail of the elevator. The meeting venue was spectacular. We were on the top floor of the Omni Parker House.…
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PSS Advances in Superconducting Motors for Aircraft
PSS just finished up a research contract for NASA in which we discovered some surprising and useful ways in which Low Temperature Superconductors (LTS) may be more suitable than High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for making light, efficient electric motors. In short, they’re cheaper. They’re much, much easier to design, manufacture, and use. Unlike HTS, it’s…
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SunStation in October
The following image shows SunStation in operation on a bright October day! The load for the day was 12.4 kWh. This includes charging a Nissan Leaf and a Toyota Prius Plugin-in. The total power generated was 40.3 kWh and 21.4 kWh was sold to the grid. As you can see, the installation is much more…
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Nuclear Fusion Power
Nuclear fusion power research started in earnest in the 1950’s. Initially, researchers thought that the work needed to produce a fusion power plant would be comparable to that needed to produce the first fission plants. That turned out to be unrealistic as the physics was not well understood and plasma confinement was much more difficult…
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Get to Mars Quickly with the Direct Fusion Drive
Do you really want to spend the next 501 days locked in a tiny room with your spouse, hurtling toward the Red Planet just to take a few snap shots from 100 miles away? What about competing with 10,000 people to build the first Martian colony on a “Big Brother”-style reality TV series? What if…
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SunStation batteries arrived!
We received the batteries and BMS for Mike’s SunStation last week. They look great!!